Home Depot is adding 1,000 jobs at huge Dallas warehouse dedicated to online purchases
Two new side-by-side warehouses that fill orders for professional builders and consumers already employ 500 people.
A rebuilt Home Depot store on Forest Lane just east of North Central Expressway in Dallas. It was damaged during the Oct. 20, 2019, tornadoes and reopened last fall.(Home Depot)
Home Depot has completed a 1.5-million-square-foot distribution center on West Jefferson Boulevard in Dallas that will allow it to make same-day and next-day deliveries of online purchases in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The building, which has 6 miles of mechanized conveyer lines and other automation in three mezzanine levels is ramping up with inventory flowing in for almost 60,000 items that will be available from the warehouse, including major kitchen and laundry appliances.
White Dallas residents outpace Blacks, Hispanics in registering for COVID vaccine
New data shows 62% of city residents who enrolled for the shot with Dallas County are white.
People wait in line for a golf cart in the parking lot of Fair Park before they receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. A limited number of COVID-19 vaccine shots will be available Thursday at Fair Park for North Texans 75 and older. (Juan Figueroa/ The Dallas Morning News)(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer)
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Six out of every 10 city residents who have enrolled for the shot with the Dallas County health department through Jan. 24 were white, according to data obtained Thursday. That’s twice the rate of the city’s overall white population.
We rightly spend a lot of time on this page praising Dallas ISD for important reforms and innovative programs that have given parents at every economic level greater confidence that their children can get the best possible education in our public school system.
Reforms like the pay-for-performance Teacher Excellence Initiative and programs that have seen school choice expanded throughout the district deserve that praise.
But the reality is that, even as DISD has been reinvigorated as a school system, most of its students largely poor and minority are not excelling academically. And far too many are underperforming. As we celebrate the successes for a relatively small number of students, we have to recognize that the district and all of us who support it still have a lot of work to do to bring those left behind up to speed.
A local library gave Amanda Gorman her big break. Help Dallas find the next star poet
Before 22-year-old Amanda Gorman dazzled a battered nation with a poignant poem at the Biden inauguration, before former presidents and first ladies sought her for pictures and before newspapers and TV shows lined up for interviews, she was a teen writing poems for a local competition at the Los Angeles Public Library. Gorman, who grapples with a speech impediment, had to be coaxed into entering the contest by a mentor.
She was unforgettable. Gorman was crowned LA Youth Poet Laureate in 2014, then National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. The title earned Gorman an invitation to perform at the Library of Congress, where she caught the eye of future first lady Jill Biden, who recommended her for the inaugural stage.
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